SIMFEROPIL, Feb. 7 Ukrainian troops placed artillery mounts in Kherson near residential buildings, said Acting Governor of the region Vladimir Saldo.
«Artillery installations are standing, hiding behind civilians in those areas where there are apartment buildings,» Saldo said on the air of the Tavria television and radio company.
In mid-October, the Russian authorities decided to resettle the residents of four municipalities on the right bank of the Dnieper deep into the Kherson region and other subjects of Russia in connection with the constant Ukrainian shelling, the risk of flooding in the event of a strike on the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric dam. At the beginning of November, 115 thousand people were taken out from the right bank, and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu agreed to begin the transfer of troops to the left bank, organizing a line of defense along the line of the Dnieper. Then Kherson went to Ukraine. Under the control of Russia is 75% of the territory of the Kherson region, said Saldo in January.